The Star: May 19, 2022

Thursday May 19 2022 The Star
• By Jared Savage
A LOADED pistol was
allegedly found in the luggage
of a Christchurch Head Hunter
gang member as he prepared to
board a domestic flight.
He was returning home to
Christchurch after being in
Auckland to celebrate the 20th
anniversary of the gang’s influential
east chapter.
The firearm was allegedly
found by Aviation Security staff
when the luggage was checked
in and went through security
screening at the domestic terminal
at Auckland Airport.
A police spokesperson
confirmed a 38-year-old man
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Loaded pistol in flight luggage leads to arrest
• By John Cosgrove
THE WEATHER looks like
it will be fairly brutal but that
isn’t deterring Nicola Garlick
planning to have a yabba dabba
doo time on the annual Tranz
Alpine Scooter Safari Cancer
Society fundraiser on Saturday.
Garlick has dressed up her
50cc Yamaha scooter as the
Fred Flintstone Flintmobile
for the 250km journey from
McLeans Island to Hokitika.
“The inspiration I had, was
to copy what my late father had
once made for a Lions fundraiser
– a Fred Flintstone car
over a quad bike,” she said.
It will be Garlick’s third safari
over the alps. Nearly 300 people
have so far registered.
Garlick, a teacher aide from
West Melton, rode her first
safari with one of her sons
dressed as the Super Mario
brothers. Last year she dressed
as a chicken.
It took her three months to
build the Flintmobile.
“The wheels are made of
expanding foam with fiberglass
over the top, the dash and other
things are made from plastic
and cardboard. The pipes here
are drain pipes with a bit wood
bog for texture and the wooden
sides are plastic and cardboard
with old curtains stitched onto
them and stuffed with pillows,”
she said.
She lost both her parents to
cancer and rides the safari to
support the Cancer Society.
“It’s great riding with so many
others, many dressed up like
me,” she said.
The journey takes about nine
hours. Garlick said one of the
highlights, other than the Sheffield
pie stop, was making it to
was arrested shortly after 1pm
on Wednesday and charged
with unlawful possession of a
firearm and ammunition.
Court documents show the
firearm was a Browning 7.65
calibre pistol, which is understood
was loaded with four
rounds of ammunition.
The Christchurch man is next
the top of Porters Pass.
“When I finally made it up to
the top of Porters Pass last year
I gave dad a big fist pump as it
was very exciting just to have
made it up there, the chicken
suit caught the wind and made
it very hard to ride at times,” she
said.
due to appear in the Manukau
District Court at the end of this
month.
The alleged discovery of
the firearm in such a brazen
manner comes shortly before a
nationwide police crackdown to
“suppress, disrupt and enforce”
unlawful gang activity.
– NZ Herald
Yabba dabba doo time
looms for fundraiser
HARDY: Nicola Garlick will be riding in her third Tranz Alpine Scooter Safari dressed as
cartoon character Fred Flintstone.
PHOTO: JOHN COSGROVE ​
She said that because of all the
work in making her bike distinctive,
she needs to be aware
of other riders.
“But it’s all about enjoying
the reaction when others see
you. You know, the chicken suit
certainly made a lot of people
laugh.”
NEWS 3
Gatherings
pose road
safety risk
• From page 1
“Often we can’t get close
enough. By the time they see
us coming they stop doing that
and move on, so we don’t get the
opportunity to identify these
vehicles,” Lloyd said.
And the sheer volume of the
gatherings, sometimes involving
more than 100 cars, could also
make it difficult for police to identify
offenders at the scene.
“Usually by the time we break
up a group like that, we can’t pinpoint
who has done what, but it is
really helpful to go back through
footage.”
Residents did not want boy
racers outside their homes damaging
roads. She said while the
gatherings themselves posed a
road safety risk, the black burnout
marks left behind could also present
a risk by covering white and
yellow road safety markings.
She said residents putting up
some cameras were also helping
deter boy racers from their areas.
“If they know they are going
to get caught in a particular area
they won’t go there, it’s a real
deterrent,” Lloyd said.
Extra beds for
intensive care
A NEW intensive care space
with 12 extra beds opened
at Christchurch Hospital on
Tuesday.
Health Minister Andrew Little
officially opened the space, which
was funded from the Government’s
rapid hospital improvement
programme.
“This new space will provide
additional critical care support
for the people of Canterbury and
ensure non-Covid patients are
safe when Covid patients are being
treated,” Little said.
Little said the project has been
completed ahead of schedule
and under budget, and is one
of 24 hospital upgrades funded
through the RHI programme
the Government announced in
December.
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